Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 1997
18 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Harris v. New York · Ridley v. State · Harris v. State · Germany v. State · Gresham v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conviction rests only on circumstantial evidence ... to convict this evidence must exclude every other reasonable hypothesis save that of. . . guilt. Code § 38-109. However, questions of reasonableness are generally for the jury to decide under proper instructions. [Cit.]” Williams v. State, 239 Ga. 12, 13 ( 235 SE2d 504 ).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.